Mr. Secretary Foxrose to give notice, that he should on Tuesday next bring forward a resolution respecting the final Abolition of the Slave trade. He conceived it would be too late in the present session to propose any bill upon the subject; but as it was one of those important subjects upon which his majesty's present ministers had pledged their opinions to the house, he thought it high time to evince their determination of carrying those opinions into effect.
§ General Tarletonwished to know the specific tenour of the right hon. gentleman's intended motion.
Mr. Secretary Foxsaid, he had no wish to conceal from the hon. gent. the purport 509 of his motion; but he had not yet shaped it into any specific form of words. His object, however, was, that the house should pledge itself to some resolution for entering, as early as possible, into the consideration of this subject, with a view to the abolition of the slave trade, but without settling any particular period for that purpose.